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What’s Your Plan for Retirement?

Do you have a plan for your retirement or want to learn on how to invest for retirement? Or is your only plan to...

Design makes a place a prison or a home. Turning ‘human-centred’ vision for aged care into reality

  Picture: Shuttlestock The Royal Commission into Aged Care left organisations that provide housing for aged care wondering how they will put its recommendations into effect. Most of these...

Retirement Houses: 7 Tips on How to Make a Right Choice

Several modern retirement houses ensure that the elder residents can live their second innings in peace and tranquillity. Selling their home and moving to...

What are manufactured home estates and why are they so problematic for retirees?

Picture: Author provided Some operators have predicted manufactured home estates will be the most popular type of retirement living in the near future, surpassing retirement villages. But...

How to Make Retirement Convenient

For working bodies, giving up a job is one of the toughest jobs. Throughout your life you have been working and there comes a...

Half of over-55s are open to downsizing – if only they could find homes that suit them

Picture: karenfoleyphotography/Shutterstock More than half of Australians over the age of 55 are open to downsizing, according to a new report based on a survey of 2,400...

When granny flats go wrong – perils for parents highlight need for law reform

Granny flats are often the result of informal arrangements between parents and children who assume it will all work out well.  Markus J/Shutterstock A “granny flat...

Grey nomad lifestyle provides a model for living remotely

Grey nomads are champions of a radical type of portable urbanism as they travel to far-flung places like Lake Ballard in Western Australia. Image...

Renters Beware: how the pension and super could leave you behind

Super and the pension treat most retirees well, but not renters.  Shutterstock How we fund retirement in an ageing century ought to worry all...
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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.